Walleye thrive in Michigan's Sagniaw Bay while Lake Huron's Chinook salmon fishery is collapsing,
By Jeff Gillies
Great Lakes Echo
June 25, 2009
Here are couple of recent and on-going series on Great Lakes topics.
Dave Spratt of Great Northern Outdoors has written a good three-part series that tells the story of shifting food webs in lakes Huron and Michigan. Parts one and two look at the collapse of Chinook salmon and the rise of walleye in Lake Huron — changes driven by the impact of zebra and quagga mussels on the once abundant alewives.
Part three heads to Lake Michigan, where alewives are down but haven’t disappeared, and competing interests from five resource departments in four states make consensus on fish sticking decisions tough. The story is the third one listed on the Great Northern Outdoors main page.
And in Great Lakes circumnavigation news, MinnPost reporter Catherine Conlan is documenting her car trip around Lake Superior. She has already posted parts one, two and three.